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Ballistic missile defence: how soon, how significant, and what should Australia's policy be? [PDF]

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Summary: The issue of ballistic missile defence (BMD) was a controversial one when US President Reagan first advocated a strategic-level system in the early 1980s. It remains so today. What’s Australia’s interest?
Andrew Davies, Rod Lyon
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Missile Defence: A View from Turkey. CEPS Commentaries, 12 October 2009 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
On September 9th, the United States announced that it was planning a multi-billion dollar sale of 13 Patriot fire units, 72 PAC-3 missiles and a range of related hardware for ground-based air defence to Turkey.
Zalewski, Piotr.
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Interceptor Technology for Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles by Stretching Time

open access: yesUniversal Journal of Engineering Science, 2013
Time is a relative dimension varies from a frame of reference to another according to the required mission and the given geometry. Thus, the consideration of the same interval of time is relatively different from a frame of reference to another. Such different consideration for the same duration of normal time (Tn) is expressed by the relativity of the
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Consequences of START for the Nordic Region [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
On the 31 of July in 1991, the START agreement, which obliged the United States and the former Soviet Union to reduce the number of long-range nuclear weapons, was signed in Moscow.
Ries, Tomas
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Space and the Atom: On the Popular Geopolitics of Cold War Rocketry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper considers the imbricated domains of space exploration and Cold War geopolitics by following the trajectory of the 'Corporal', the world's first guided missile authorised to carry a nuclear warhead.
MacDonald, Fraser
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The conception, birth, and growth of a missile umbilical system [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
The design development was traced for the sprint 2 and improved sprint 2 missile system (ISMS) umbilical system. The unique system requirements, umbilical designs considered to meet the requirements, and the problems encountered and solutions derived ...
Nordman, G. W.
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Historical development of worldwide guided missiles [PDF]

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The development of missiles from early history to present time is put in perspective. The influence of World War II in accelerating the development of guided missiles, particularly through German scientists, is discussed.
Spearman, M. L.
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